A Book Designer's Notebook

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A New Approach to My Commonplace Book, Among Other Things
Also: Leaving the Honeymoon Phase, What I'm Reading, and A Book Design Milestone
Sep 6 • 
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Thank You for Reading This
A Year-End Notebook
Dec 28, 2024 • 
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RE: Judging a Book by its Cover
And a Notebook
Oct 24, 2024 • 
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Where to Find a Book Designer
Four Websites to Help Your Publishing Journey + an October Notebook
Oct 6, 2024 • 
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Preschool Germs and Medieval Law and Justice
A September Notebook
Sep 8, 2024 • 
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A Process Video Notebook
What I'm reading, writing, and working on
Aug 18, 2024 • 
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A Soupy Notebook
Creative Practice Soup; Dreyer's English; So-Bad-They're Good Movies; Killed Book Covers; A Public Domain Field Guide
Jul 28, 2024 • 
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A Good Reads Notebook
Six book recommendations for six months gone
Jul 7, 2024 • 
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A Grateful Notebook
Paid subscriptions, keeping a notebook, t-shirts, AI on a book cover, Too Much Happiness, and more.
Jun 23, 2024 • 
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A New York Notebook
My Birthday Trip to the Big Apple and What I'm Working On
May 31, 2024 • 
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Notebook: Let Them Print Cake
Non-traditional publishing, Hell and its discontent(ed worker)s, and an 84-inch wide cake.
May 11, 2024 • 
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Welcome to A Book Designer's Notebook
What the hell am I doing?
May 1, 2024 • 
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